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Former SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka was given shelter in Britain after WWII
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologises for the events surrounding Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelensky's visit at a media availability in Ottawa, Ontario, on Wednesday, September 27, 2023

FORMER SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka, whose standing ovation in the Canadian parliament this week scandalised the world, was given refuge in Britain after World War II, the Morning Star can reveal.

Despite having served in the Galician division of the Waffen-SS, a unit associated with massacres of Jews, Poles and other civilians during the war, Mr Hunka was allowed to settle in Britain.

He emigrated to Canada in 1954 and was presented to that country’s House of Commons as a hero this week, receiving an enthusiastic reception from, among others, visiting Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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